Absolutely!

"Drew, can you help me with part of an experiment tonight? I need an impartial set of eyes." David asks, hopefully.

"Yeah man, absolutely! I didn't have anything planned tonight anyways," you respond. You were already dressed, not having changed into casual clothes from your last class of the day.

"Are you ok if we go now? We can grab a bite to eat on the way back. Shouldn't take too long." David asks, already putting on his shoes. You nod your response and put on your shoes as well. You follow him out the door of your apartment and take a left towards campus. Your apartment is located roughly two blocks from the northside of BBC College's campus, a location that was incredibly convenient for you and David considering the math and science buildings are on that side of campus. You and David make small talk on your way to his lab, but he seems hesitant to give you too much information on the experiment. Finally, you ask,

"Who else is working on this with you? Anybody I know?"

"Um, there's James, who lives a couple houses down from us, he's the other white guy in the program with me. There's Mikal, who's an exchange student from Kenya, and he's been really fun to work with. Andre is the other one, a lightskinned guy from South Caroline somewhere. He's kind of put himself in the 'alpha dog' role, so whatever he says goes." David was counting the men off on his fingers as he listed them. You sighed as soon as you heard Andre's name...you hadn't seen him and Katie since last spring, and while you didn't harbor any resentment towards him for "stealing your girl", you still weren't his biggest fan.

You both continue to walk towards the lab, and as you cross High Street onto campus, you take a right past your red brick mathematics and see a sleek, shiny, dark grey-paneled building come into view.

"Is this your lab?" You ask David, inquisitively. "Obviously it's right by my building, but I didn't have any idea what it was."

"Yeah," David responds, "it's a pretty cool state-of-the-art building. You'll see." David leads you into the building and swipes his badge at a stand in front of the security desk. The guard nods at David, and you could have sworn he gave you a wink as you walked by. "We're down here in the basement." David says, pulling open a door to the immediate right of the guard. You walk down metal steps, and when you reach the bottom David swipes his badge again to pull open a dark grey door.

The door swings open and you step into an illuminated lab. In the center of the room is a set of three vacuum chambers, reminding you of Captain America's tube in the first movie. Encircling the chambers is an elevated metal walkway, with terminals lining the sides facing the chambers.

"Hey David, glad you found someone to help us!" You look around to see a small white kid with glasses, freckled skin, and blonde hair waving at the two of you.

"Bout damn time," echoed a sharp voice from the other side of the room. You back around to your right to see a familiar face: Andre. He looked a little different from the last time you saw him - he had a close-cut fade instead of his dreads, and he had grown a mustache and little goatee. Even through the white lab coat he had on, you could tell that he was still massive. Apparently working on this thesis hadn't stopped him from going to the gym. "Glad you finally dragged our last volunteer here, David. Told you to get him here on Monday."

"Suh-sorry, Andre..." David said sheepishly, looking down at his feet. "He had late classes earlier this week so I didn't get a chance to."

"It doesn't matter now. He's here." A new, accented voice said. Standing up from behind the vacuum chambers was a gigantic dark-skinned man. He looked to be about 6'8, and his dark eyes were narrowed as he looked you over. "Let's get all of you ready to go."

"What does he mean by all-" You being to say, but David shoots you a look and you stop talking.

"Go get changed. There are lab gowns in the room to your left." Andre says, and you detected a more a hint of impatience in his voice.

"Let's go, follow me." David said, and you could see the white kid, who obviously must be James, following both of you towards the room. The three of you walked through the room and into the changing room, which was a little room barely bigger than a closet. On three hooks were pink gowns, the kind you would wear in a hospital, and underneath were three little bins.

"We have to put our clothes in here," James said, a hint of excitement in his voice. He began to strip, and as he was taking off his underwear you exclaimed,

"Woah woah woah, what kind of experiment is this?" James looked at you and then at David, a confused look on his face.

"Did you not tell him anything about this?"

"I didn't have time, I just wanted to get him here..." David said, avoiding James' eye contact.

"Well I'll tell him. The purpose of this experiment is to..."